Questions tagged [multimodality]
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Determine modes in a histogram [closed]
If there are multiple distributions in a histogram(multimodal distribution), how can I find number of modes and cluster those modes?
Current Approach
Currently I'm using mean shift to find number of ...
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How can LSTM predict correctly?
i made CNN-LSTM parallel layers to predict speed and steering values.
The layers look like (not the same values but similar structure) :
End-to-end Multi-Modal Multi-Task Vehicle Controlfor Self-...
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Summary statistics over varied n-modal Gaussian KDEs
I am analysing a bunch of data files which represent responsiveness of cells to addition of a drug. If a drug is not added, cell responds normally, if it is added, it shows abnormal patterns:
(TLDR at ...
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Finding the first tail in distribution [closed]
Pdf of a distribution is shown in the figure below. Is there a way to estimate the first tail (or) to segment first mode and its tail?
he KDE plot resulted from a transaction dataset where ...
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Does the multimodal probability distribution tend toward uniform distribution as number of modes becomes very large?
Does the multimodal probability distribution tend toward uniform distribution as number of modes becomes very large? Multimodal probability density distribution is formed by the convex combination of ...
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Significance of modes in a distribution
I have several datasets with angular measurements, i.e. circular values from 0 to $2\pi$. These datasets tend to have peaks at 0 and/or $\pi$, and I need to tell if the peaks are detected/significant. ...
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Multi-View Survival Analysis
I have a data set containing various subsets of medical data about a cohort of patients. For example there are blood test results, demographics, medical examination results and a medical history among ...
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Is this Bayesian model averaging?
A classical example of Bayesian model averaging (BMA) is the regression setup where the choice of different sets of covariates corresponds to different models $\mathcal{M}_k$, $k = 1, \ldots, K$, ...
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Which statistical methods are best suited for distribution with two peaks?
My data shows this distribution:
I am looking for a statistical distribution which my data follows. Thought about poisson distribution, but goodness of fit test shows p < 0.05
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Fastest Multimodal sampler
I am currently working with Multinest, a bayesian multimodal sampler however it becomes slow for higher dimensions, exponentially slow.
Is there another sampler out there that can give me parameter ...
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Confusion about multimodal machine learning
I recently browsed through this tutorial on multimodal data.
Attention: Multimodal in the sense of feature of very different type, that express the same thing
-think picture and voice of ...
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Is the Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic posterior multimodal?
In fitting the Latent Dirichlet Allocation with collapsed Gibbs sampling one builds a sampled approximation to the topic posterior distribution, $P(z|w)$ and use that to calculate the topic and word ...
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Multimodality of mixtures of more than two Normal distributions
Let
$$\phi(x;\mu,\sigma) = \frac{1}{\sigma \sqrt{2\pi}} \exp \left(- \frac{(x-\mu)^2}{2\sigma^2}\right)$$
denote the Gaussian density function ($\sigma > 0$). Let
$$f(x) = \sum_{i=1}^N p_i \...
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How to combine multiple signal data in my ML model?
I'm doing a task where I need to work with healthcare data from a few different sources. For example, one is an audio signal recording while another is biometric signal reading such as ECG.
Both of ...
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How to numerically find the mode of a joint probability distribution from samples? [duplicate]
I have a large number of samples (say $N$) from a multimodal joint probability distribution, for example:
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Does it make sense to calculate MLE for multimodal distributions?
The simplest examples of multimodal distributions I've seen are mixtures, namely mixtures of normals.
However, in this case, the Maximum Likelihood Estimator [MLE] doesn't make much sense. An example ...
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Distinguish between underlying Distribution and data shape in data transforming?
My question is not well worded, which is part of the problem. I’m specifically trying to apply this to my understanding of Six Sigma, but it probably applies everywhere.
I know that having a normal ...
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inverse integration of multimodal distribution
I have a probability distribution, with a number of modes with different peak values, and I have to capture the 90% most significant value ranges.
My idea is to apply a threshold starting from the ...
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Is redundancy across different modalities required in multimodal machine learning
There are lots of articles available pertaining to 'multi-modal machine learning'.
Among the major challenges, there is a one of representation i.e. "how to represent and summarize multi-modal data ...
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Evaluation of MCMC samples
My model contains five parameters. I want to make Bayesian estimation, but the Bayes estimates can not be obtained in closed form. So, I used Metropolis-Hastings to generate MCMC samples from ...
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mean variance of multimodal distribution
This may be too much of a simplistic question: but is it correct to say that it simply doesn't make sense to compute averages/means of data that is fundamentally multimodal? That is, there is not one ...
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Multimodality from unimodal variables
Let's say a data matrix $\bf{X} \in \mathbb{R}^{N \times D}$ has $D$ random variables each with $N$ observations. So $j$th column of $\bf{X}$ is $N$ observations of $j$th random variable.
Suppose ...
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Detecting if an 1-dimenisional distribution is Multimodal
I'm writing up some C++ code for one of my Master's coursework. What I'm actually doing at the moment isn't on the syllabus, but I wish to implement it anyway as it will allow me to produce my own ...
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Is the likelihood of the sum of unimodal likelihoods also unimodal?
Let $p$ be a probability distribution and let $\mathcal{D}_1$, $\mathcal{D}_2$ be two sets of observations.
If the likelihood of the parameter for some observations
$$
\mathcal{L}(\theta; \mathcal{D})...
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How to detect multivariate binomial distributions?
I tried the hartigans dip test, and it works well for univariate distributions. However, when i tried taking each variable (dimension) and applied hartigans dip test (assuming that if along one ...
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Multimodal prior
In Bayesian method, a posterior can be either unimodal or multimodal. But, I cannot find any multimodal prior case yet.
I wonder if it is possible, and there is any case that is using multimodal ...
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Describe why a distribution might be multimodal?
Suppose that I visualized a distirbution and noticed that it was multimodal. For example, I collected the heights of a bunch of students.
I notice that the distirbution is multimodal. How would I ...
